Stanya Kahn Ceramics

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Stanya kahn ceramics. Using humor as a central device kahn combines storytelling with visceral performances blurring the lines between the fictional and the real to show how language is forged out of trauma. Even when roles have been designated to be specifically female women and their talents are often taken for granted. Ceramic sculptures animations video lava rocks carpet internal response a howling wind from the forest and every mother s mouth rise or be damned. Jo dahn sums up the evolution of ceramics from craft to art when she writes about artists using ceramics in their work.

Some ceramic sculptures 2017 18. Stanya kahn bye 2018 ink and gesso on canvas 46 75 x 35 75 x 2 hxwxd 118 75 x 90 81 x 5 08 cm courtesy of the artist and vielmetter los angeles. Stanya kahn stanya kahn. 4 x 3 1 2 x 7 inches mike kelley spinkle lingam.

In it s cool i m good 2010 kahn appears bandaged beyond gender but keeps on in an environment that s just as damaged cruising by turns on crutches or a motorcycle from l a s fast. Humor pathos and the uncanny emerge as central modes in a hybrid media practice that seeks to re work relationships between fiction and document the real and the hyper real satire and. Stanya kahn is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video with a practice that includes performance writing sound drawing painting and ceramics. They have however dispensed with the production of ceramics as objects of exchange and.

Stanya kahn stanya kahn. Carol jackson drills 2017 paper mache acrylic ipolymer clay digital print. 15 x 8 x 16 inches thomas kapsalis figure 2017 bronze. From group show trigger at the new museum 2017 ceramic sculptures animations video lava rocks carpet.

Ceramic 13 1972 glazed porcelain. They were made by individuals who trained in traditional craft techniques and who may well mobilize aspects of ceramics as craft. For the most part this was the case with the female artists who used tapestry and needlework as a form of expression in the early twentieth century.